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NMR crystallography of zeolites: How far can we go without diffraction data?
Author(s) -
Brouwer Darren H.,
Van Huizen Jared
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.483
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1097-458X
pISSN - 0749-1581
DOI - 10.1002/mrc.4748
Subject(s) - nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography , chemistry , diffraction , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , crystallography , solid state nuclear magnetic resonance , carbon 13 nmr satellite , spectroscopy , tetramethylammonium , x ray crystallography , fluorine 19 nmr , nuclear magnetic resonance , organic chemistry , physics , optics , ion , quantum mechanics
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) crystallography—an approach to structure determination that seeks to integrate solid‐state NMR spectroscopy, diffraction, and computation methods—has emerged as an effective strategy to determine structures of difficult‐to‐characterize materials, including zeolites and related network materials. This paper explores how far it is possible to go in determining the structure of a zeolite framework from a minimal amount of input information derived only from solid‐state NMR spectroscopy. It is shown that the framework structure of the fluoride‐containing and tetramethylammonium‐templated octadecasil clathrasil material can be solved from the 1D 29 Si NMR spectrum and a single 2D 29 Si NMR correlation spectrum alone, without the space group and unit cell parameters normally obtained from diffraction data. The resulting NMR‐solved structure is in excellent agreement with the structures determined previously by diffraction methods. It is anticipated that NMR crystallography strategies like this will be useful for structure determination of other materials, which cannot be solved from diffraction methods alone.